Isn’t it funny how beauty trends change, Primps? A prime example of an epic change would be thin, sperm-esque brows. We LOVED them in the ’90s, but today, you’d have to pay most of us a trillion dollars (and bake us another trillion cupcakes) to sport such things.

And when it comes to brow colour, well, we used to view the combo of blondish locks and darker brows as a little trashy. Now we’ve slowly shifted from that to the point where we now know having brows a few shades darker than your hair colour actually does wonders to frame your face.

Elle Fanning knows the power of a darker brow – the proof is in the pudding of LOVE’s up and coming 6thissue cover. And even though her strands are more like four or five shades lighter than her eye brows, she looks sensational.

It depends on the person, how blonde they are and how dark the brows are. I mean if a person is platnium blonde they can’t have platnium blonde eyebrows because they would just look washed out but I don’t like to see dark brown eyebrows either because that gives a very fake look to them but light brown/dark blonde eyebrows work because it is gives them definition without being harsh or too eye distracting.

Question: I have meduim to dark brown hair that throws a little warmth..my brow lady tints my brows a chocolate colour. Should i be having them tinted darker?

Posted by: Stacey // Wed, 27 July 2011 02:23pm

I love this look! I used to have quite blonde hair with dark brown eyebrows which always felt too big to go with my light hair but Elle’s look amazing! I have become a little obsessed with brows of late…especially since i dyed my hair darker. I found that my brows started to look a bit patchy in contrast to my hair colour so have been using brow pencils which fill them in and make them even darker and i’m loving it (FYI- highly recommend Prestige ultimate brow definer)

Funny I’ve started to accept myself with slightly darker eyebrows than usual. I used to reject brow pencils etc thinking it looked weird but kind of like it now!! Elle was amazing in Super8, I cant believe she is only 13- she is so talented. She looks like a little pixie in that photo- love it.

The light natural makeup does suite a 13 year old girl. Yes, it’s a good idea to slightly darken the brows even with blonde hair because it enhances the facial features. Especially when wearing eye shadow.

I have dark brown hair and my brows are slightly lighter, so I darken my brows a bit after putting on eye shadow. It completes my whole makeup.

i always wonder if i should do somethign about my eyebrows as they are a couple of shades darker than my artifically blonde hair. i think i shall embrace the brows from now on, and let today be national brow day:)

The reason why it works is because she can pull that look off! When people can pull it off it looks good. Also because her eyebrows have a natural shape to them rather than when they look like they have been shaped and plucked thin. If she had skinny eyebrows it would look harsher and bad.